NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Review: The $400 Fight
by Ryan Smith on May 30, 2013 9:00 AM ESTDiRT: Showdown
As always, starting off our benchmark collection is our racing benchmark, DiRT: Showdown. DiRT: Showdown is based on the latest iteration of Codemasters’ EGO engine, which has continually evolved over the years to add more advanced rendering features. It was one of the first games to implement tessellation, and also one of the first games to implement a DirectCompute based forward-rendering compatible lighting system. At the same time as Codemasters is by far the most prevalent PC racing developers, it’s also a good proxy for some of the other racing games on the market like F1 and GRID.
Despite the fact that it’s a $400 card, GTX 770 straddles the line between being a card best suited for 2560x1440, and a card best suited for 1920x1080. With GTX 780 and above we could get away with 2560 on the highest settings in most games, but with GTX 770 there will at times be compromises, either in quality/resolution, or dropping below 60fps.
In any case, DiRT: Showdown remains a troublesome title for NVIDIA. With its advanced lighting system on, GTX 770 trails the 7970 – let alone the 7970GE – at every resolution. For GTX 780 this wasn’t a problem, but for GTX 770 this means dropping below 60fps at 2560.
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LoccOtHaN - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link
True Bro ;-) AMD is more user friendly, but when Next-Gen on ATI/AMD comes PS4 and M$ XBx1 then all optimalisation will be AMD friendly and DX11.1 (DX11.x or Full DX11) and we won !whyso - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Well looks like the 7970 ghz has been tied. Lower price is nice but almost no OC headroom (wouldn't be surprised if AT got a cherry picked sample) and no game bundle. Similar power consumption too. Performance increase is virtually 0 but the price decrease is nice.A5 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Worth pointing out that you can pretty easily get the AMD bundle codes for ~$30 on eBay. It wipes out the price advantage, but it does let you weigh the cards on the merits of their hardware.steve_rogers42 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Think there is an error on page 7,"Of course this is only a 9% increase in the GPU clockspeed, which is going to pale in comparison to parts like GTX 670 and GTX 780, each of which can do 20%+ due to their lower clockspeeds. So there’s some overclocking headroom in GTX 780, but as to be expected not a ton."
Last sentence should read GTX 770 yea?
Great article, good to see nvidia's progress with the GPU boost 2 and taking on-board the tdp/power issue that the 600 series seems to have had. It will be interesting to see what they make of the 760 and what it will contain.
Cheers,
nathanddrews - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Wow... at worst it is equal with the 680 for $100 less. At best, it is tied with the 780 for $250 less. I think NVIDIA needs to reexamine their pricing model - I'm sure the market will fix it for them. Either the 770 is too cheap or the 780 is way too expensive. (signs point to the latter)shompa - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
GTX 780 die is huge. It costs Nvidia almost double to manufacture a 780GTX then a 770/680 die.Only if Nvidia have enough harvested defect dies from Tesla chips they could/would lower the price on GTX 780.
EJS1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
If the 780 performs better than the 680 by 30-35% out the gate w/ crappy day1 drivers (future updates will only increase that advantage), how exactly is it tied with the 770?nathanddrews - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
How exactly is it tied? Like I said, at its best.http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/829?vs=827
770 and 780 tied (within +/-5%):
DiRT: Showdown - 1920x1080 - Ultra Quality + 4xMSAA
Sleeping Dogs - 1920x1080 - Ultra Quality + Normal AA
Battlefield 3 - 1920x1080 - Ultra Quality + FXAA-High
Compute: Civilization V
Compute: Sony Vegas Pro 12 Video Render
Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage Pixel Fill
EJS1980 - Thursday, May 30, 2013 - link
Your link shows the 780 with a pretty substantial performance advantage, save for a couple instances. I stand by my comment.nathanddrews - Saturday, June 1, 2013 - link
It's easy to stand by your comment if you completely ignore what I wrote and ignore the facts. For instance, the 680 was not tested with "crappy day1 drivers", it was tested with very recent 320.14 drivers while the 770/780 used 320.18. In addition, I never said that the 770 was always tied with the 780, I said "at its best", which means that at the high end it ties the 780 in some benchmarks. At its worst, on the low end, the 770 is tied with the 680 in some benchmarks. I hope that clarifies things for you.